PALCI announces new board members and officers

PHILADELPHIA, PA – January 10, 2013 -- PALCI, the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc., has announced the new members and officers of its Board of Directors for 2013. The PALCI membership consists of 70 academic and research libraries, private and public, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and West Virginia.

A nine-member board guides the work of PALCI. Members are elected for terms of three years. Elected to serve for the 2013 to 2015 term are Jill Ausel, Library Director, Chatham University; BethAnn Zambella, Director of the Library, Elizabethtown College; and Joseph Lucia, Library Director, Villanova University.

The board also elected new officers in early December. The following assumed their new duties in January 2013:

Secretary: Barbara Dewey, Dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications, The Pennsylvania State University

Treasurer: Donald Dilmore, Associate Vice President for University Libraries, Edinboro University

Annual Meeting Explores Next Gen Library Infrastructure

The 2012 PALCI Fall Member Meeting was held December 5 on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. The theme for the meeting was Next Gen Library Infrastructure.

During the meeting, the service of outgoing board members was recognized. Retiring from the board are Susan Campbell, Library Director, York College of Pennsylvania; Laverna Saunders, University Librarian, Duquesne University; and Carrie Rampp, Director of Library Services, Bucknell University.

The meeting kicked off with a keynote address by Carl Grant, President at CARE Affiliates consulting group and Executive Advisor to Dean of Libraries at Virginia Tech University. Attendees also heard presentations from staff at Swarthmore College, Bucknell University, and Villanova University on their advances in library technology infrastructures. In the afternoon sessions, member representatives met to discuss PALCI's initiatives on resource sharing, print archiving and joint e-resource acquisition.

As Peggy Seiden, incoming board president noted after the meeting, "This was our second meeting under the leadership of our new executive director, Cathy Wilt. In the past year, PALCI has been able to make great strides on the major strategic areas which the Board and members had identified as key priorities as well as strengthening our operational foundations. The energy in the room was wonderful…there was a real sense that PALCI continues to move forward in its mission to enhance library services and resource sharing within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and neighboring regions and that it is invaluable to our members."

About PALCI

The Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc.—better known as PALCI—formed in 1996 as a grassroots federation of 35 academic libraries in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Today, the PALCI Membership consists of 70 academic and research libraries, private and public, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and West Virginia. Member institutions range from small liberal arts colleges to publicly funded universities to ARL institutions and the State Library of Pennsylvania. Libraries in PALCI have holdings in excess of 36 million volumes and a combined FTE of over 550,000 students and faculty. For more information on PALCI and on becoming a PALCI member, visit www.palci.org.

Summary:

PALCI, the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc., has announced the new members and officers of its Board of Directors for 2013. The PALCI membership consists of 70 academic and research libraries, private and public, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and West Virginia.